Just Married....

Its official now. Its the beginning of a new journey of the two of us.



Pictures of "The Rings".

Twin Happiness (Seong Hei)

One of the stuff, that we were supposed to furnish the bridal room with was this pair of lamps. I've seen some more traditional ones, but, after attending a few of our friend's weddings, I have not come across, or remembered seeing these lamps in their room. Sayang was looking around in Jusco Selatan, one of those days and found these pair of lamps. I'd earlier imagined that the "Hei" word will be projected out like the Bat Signal, but when I saw it, ok la.. no "Hei" signal also no problem... it looks very modern and non traditional and yet serves its purpose.

Also early in the morning, we went to this Bridal Shop just outside of Taman Cheras to decorate the car. In all its corniness of the whole entire process, lets see what this car can symbolize. The goldness of the car symbolizes a vehicle to bring us, "The Couple" into a golden era, while the turbo system should give us a good boost to achieve our dreams, and live happilly ever after...

To make it even cornier, the three spoke of the Mitsubishi sign can represent , The Heart. The Soul and The Spirit....


So after 30 minutes of waiting, they came and finally gave the key back to us. This car belongs to Adrian, and I really appreciate it that he borrowed me his car for the special occasion tomorrow. Hey, thanks mate...

PS. To all the dudes, dudettes, and good old friends, who hasn't been invited to attend our registration. I just wanted to let you all know that the big hoo haa wedding ceremony cum dinner thing will happen sometime next year. You will be handed the invitations sometime next year, I hope.. because the date is not set yet...

Foods of Auspicious Meanings for Chinese Weddings...

Oh wow, I am getting married on Monday, and I am just learning about the cultures the our Ancients has been practicing. The ironic thing is about how the Chinese people uses food items to represents symbols with auspicious meanings. I was very surprised when my sister in law, actually bought these stuff and said, its to be put on your bridal bed wan.... I really stun 9 only. But after they explained the various auspicious meanings to it, I also accepted it with open arms... hehehe..

When the furniture arrived, my mom (the good fortune woman), symbolically installed the bed. The bed sheet's bought by Sayang's mom, which was very very nice to touch. Obviously, following traditions, it has to be pink in color. The foods stuff you see on top, is laid on top of a sepcial silk quilt cover, which Sayang's mom bought specially from China. Very smooth, very song !!

So back to the food stuff, and symbolic items. We were to put an even number of Tangerines, but in modern times we substituted it with mini tangerines (kat) which symbolizes, Tai Kat Tai Lei. Then you have a packet of dried foods, which consists of, dried longans, dried red dates and dried persimmons are sweet and will bless the marriage with sweetness [Source: The Wedding Blog].

The Pak hup, is there to symbolize a hundred years of harmony in the marriage meanwhile the lotus seeds and pomegranate is to symbolize the blessing of the marriage with fertility.

Tomorrow, my baby nephew will have one heck of a time, jumping around the bed, also as a way to bless the bed with extra powers of fertility. kekekeke...... Its fun and its really cute to see the little baby jumping and rolling around the bed. Its actually a pantang, for any adult to sit or rest on the bed before the wedding.

Last but not least, the long hexagonal black stick , is actually a long piece of coal (in cantonese its "Tan" ) to symbolize good fortune and good life for the couple. "Tan kei".

These are basically my last posting as a bachelor. Seriously, before I had to go through all this, I had no idea whatsoever, that there are so many auspicious meanings the items involved in a chinese wedding.....

A Wedding Day To Remember Part 2

It was quite an ordeal to go thru, the Five Tasks... actually only four.
A) EAT FRUITS
B) SING SONG
C) DO EXERCISE
D) DRINK JUICES
oh ya the fifth one was reserved for Yew Meng
E) GIVE ANG POW... (Lets watch the Video and see when he decides to come out with the Arsenal... heh...



So we made it through the final hurdle, the Bride decided it was enough, she was kept in her room away from her darling for so long, hmm it must have been tormenting. Enuff is enuff.... she opened the door and in went Yew Meng, who couldn't wait to unveil his bride and kiss her (listen to the Tai Kam, wakakaka ).



Okay so that was it, they went on downstairs to do the TEA Ceremony which went on forever, while we waited outside and had our breakfast, Fried Bee Hoon, Curry Chicken and Red Bean Porridge. It really took them quite a while to finish the Tea Ceremony, she must have had a lot of relatives. Anyway by the time they were to ready to go over to Yew Meng's we were already quite tired fromt the lack of sleep and heat from the morning sun. Already waiting in the car and managed to snap this photo
So we went back to Yew Meng's where we had a quick TEA Ceremony with all the relatives from his side, and everyone chowed down lunch, His Mom made Nasi Lemak, nice... with some Fried Chicken and Curry from some Kampung Pandan mamak. The bestest was still the Roast Pig, yums....

By 1pm we all went home. I got home, showered and slumbered. The rest was much needed as we had a long night ahead of us. The Metro Gang will regroup for this wedding and our table will definitely help Yew Meng finish his liquor / wine /beer.

To be Continued.....

A Wedding Day To Remember Part 1

It was indeed a day to remember, and one which we were looking forward to, for a long long time now. Hmm, I really forgot when Yew Meng actually messaged me on MSN and told me, I have to be free on Nov 19, 2006. So I asked him, why ? Getting Married ah ? Surprisingly, his reply was , YES, how did you know .... Since it was gonna be many months more to come, we quickly forgot that he was getting married come November and talked about Golf and life in Atlanta. Oh ya thats the fella there on the left getting married on Nov 19. Had to take a picture of him dressing up like that also, because you will never see him dress up like this ever again.

3 weeks ago, our friend called up, eh, how many people coming for dinner ah ? I said two la, I replied your RSVP ma..... Suddenly I realized, wuah, our friend's wedding is coming soon jo. With a blink on an eye, so many months has passed, although I still don realize how many months has passed since he told me get myself free on Nov 19.

VIDEO = Getting Ready in the Morning 9am


My day began 730am, when I woke up, and slept back again for another 10 minutes. These days, sleep is precious. So by 8am sharp I got a call from Sayang ! wei u coming yet?. " On my way out," zipped up my trousers and off I went, raced down the Loke Yew Road towards Kepong to pick Sayang Up. We reached Yew Meng's about 9am. By that time, Wei Sing and Alvin has already reached. I scanned around to look for more guys to form the Motorcade to the Bride's house. 2 cars, Alvin's and Mine. And the Yew Meng's Flower Car. Alamak.

So we set out for Pick Yuen's place at about 915 and reached probably at about 10am or something like that. Little did we realized that they had the grill door locked up , with all the girls in there. Fuiseh, they formed a human wall of some sort, and after we handed over the Roasted Pig, Wine and Fruits, as our door gift, we were staring blankly at each other. The Big Kam (the lady who talks almost in rhyme all the time, you can hear her in the background most of the time) began her work. While we began ours.



The negotiations began,as we the Brothers (Heng Dais) face up to the Sistas (Zhi Muis). First thing, they asked for was Money, alamak. So nice , pay RM9,999.99 can get off scot free without having to do any tasks. But instead we also have ask la, what tasks we have to do first. hehehe. So they let us pick Cue Cards, nicely printed and slotted into Ang Pows (wow, nice touch to it). So the First Tast we had to do was EAT FRUITS.... yikes... What fruits la.Nice touch, A banana and two grapes tied to the waste of one of our brothers. The girls must have a wild imagination. Wakakaka.... Then we had DO EXERCISE, DRINK WATER and SING SONG. Wakakakaka. Obviously we passed the tests with flying colors. Oops except for the SING SONG part. Nobody spoke Hokkien. kekeke.



This video was from our final task, DRINK FRUIT JUICE. KEKEKE. After which we proceeded to the next stage, after they opened the grill door. I noticed just one thing through out the entire ordeal. There was lots of laughter.

To Be Continued.....